Combined cigar lighting and clipping device.



No. 665,92I. Patentad Ian. I5, I90I.

' C. A. MILLER. GMBINEDv CIGAR LlBHTlNIG AND CLIPPING DEVICE. (Appueeion mea Aug. a1, 1900.) (Nn Model.)

top plan View of the device.

` UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

CHARLES A. MILLER, OF KANSAS CITY,'MISSOURI.

COMBINED CIGAR LIGHTING AND GLIPPING DVIC'E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.7665,921, dated January 15, 1901.

Application tiled August 3 l, 1900.

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri, have invented a new and useful Combined Cigar Clipping and Lighting Device, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combined cigar clipping and lighting device, and more especially to that class of said devices by which a cigar can be clipped and gas ignited easily and quickly and which automatically restores the clipping mechanism to its original position and incidentally extinguishes the'fiame; and my object is to produce a device which is of ornamental appearance and of simple, strong, and durable construction.

To these ends the invention consists in certai n novel and peculiar features of construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that it maybe fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section taken on the line I I of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line II II of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a taken on the line IV IV of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, 1 designates a gas-pipe arranged at a convenient point, closed at its front end by a cap 2 or equivalent means, and near said end it is provided with a gas-valve ofthe usual or any preferred construction, said gas-valve consisting of a T-coupling 3 and a conical rotatable plug 4, seated therein and provided with a passage 5, communieating at times with the passage 3a in the T- coupling, which opens into the gas-pipe.

To compensate for wear on the valve, a tap 6, bearing against the bottom of the coupling, is mounted on a valve-stem 7, and to hold passage 5 of the plug normally out of engagement with the coupling-passage leading direct to the supply-pipe a spiral spring 8 is mounted on the valve-stem and is secured at its opposite ends to the lug 9, depending from the coupling, and the collar 10, secured rigidly on the stem.

The plugis provided with an upwardly-projecting stem 1l in axial alinement with stem 7 and communicating at its lower end with passage 5, the upper end of said tubular stem hereinafter referred to.

Fig. 4. is a view` Serial No. 28,643. (No model.)

11 terminating in a horizontal arm l2, having a fine jet-orifice 13 and preferably split for the greater part of its length, as shown at 14, 55

to admit of a certain leakage of gas to insure ,quick and reliable ignition atthe proper time, as will be hereinafter referred to.

The upper part of the easement consists of the vertical half-sleeve 15, provided at its op- 6o lower end ofsaid half-sleeve is a horizontal 65 plate 18, which constitutes the top of the box, This plate or cover forms a journal for the tubular stem 11, and secured rigidly on said stem between said plate and the upper end of the plug is a muti- 7o lated gear-Wheel 19, meshing with a similar gear-wheel 20, journaled upon a bolt 21, depending from said plate or cover, and formed integrally or otherwise secured to the upper side of said wheel 2O and working againstthe 75 lower face of the plate or cover is a knife 22, the same being adapted, as wheel 2O is turned through the medium of handle 23, to clip 0E the end of a cigar projecting down through one of the holes 24e of the plate or cover, in 8o the manner common to cigar-clipping machines. Said handle is adapted to operate through a space of about ninety degrees in a horizontal slot 25 in the upper end of the lower section or box 26 of the easement, said 85 the wall, wall-strip, or other object by means 9o of screws 28 or equivalent devices, which screws must be removed when it is desired t-o take the box down for any purpose. After the screws are removed the box is permitted to slip down off the lower end of stem 7 and 95 is then totally disconnected from the plate or cover and the operative parts of the device. It is as easily restored to position and is resecured by replacing the screws 28.

From the foregoing it will be seen that by ma grasping the handle 23 and throwing the same forward about ninety degrees the knife passes the holes 24., and the stem 11, hereinafter termed the burner-tube, is thrown from the position shown in full lines to the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 3. By the time about half of said movement is effected gas begins to leak or escape from the arm or tip of the tube, because passage 5 at such time registers with the passage of the coupling leading to pipe l, and in order to ignite such escaping gas l provide an electric igniter constructed by, preference, as follows:

29 designates an electric conductor electrically connected to one of the securingscrews of the upper part of the casement and to a source of electric supply. (Not shown.) 30 designates a similar conductor, which by preference extends down into the half-sleeve adjacent to pipel, being insulated from electric contact with said pipe and sleeve.

3l designates an insulating-collar clamped in an opening 32 in the half-sleeve above the burner-arm or tip of the burner-tube by a tap 33 and perforated to receive the reduced stem of the metallic arm 34C, said arm being clam ped against said insulating-collar by means of a screw-bolt 35, said screw-bolt also serving to clamp the naked end of the conductor 30 against the end of arm 34, so that the current must flow through conductor 30 and arm 34. The frontend of said arm is bent laterally and carries a spring-contact 36, which lies in the path of movement of the arm or tip ofthe burner-tube ll, in order that as said tube is swung from the position shown in full tothe position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 3, it shall make and break an electric circuit by. scraping against the lower end of springcontact 36 in such movement, a spark occurringas the circuit is broken, which instantly ignites the escaping gas, the same continuing to burn until the operator removes his hand from lever 23 and permits spring 8 to automatically return said lever to its original position and in such return incidentally throw the burner back to its original position and cut off the llo'w of gas from the supply-pipe to the 'burner-tube.

The. accumulations of cigar-clippings are removed from the boX by sliding forward the plate 37, step-jointed to and normally forming a part of4 the bottom of the box, this action providing an opening through which the clippings fall into asuitable receptacle placed to receive them.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced a device possessing the features of advantage enumerated as desirable, and while I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of the invention it is to be understood that it is susceptible of various changes as regards its form, proportion, detail construction, and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit and scope or sacrificing any of the advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. Ina device of the character described, the combination of a gas-supply pipe, a valve connected. to the sa|ne,.and a burner-tube connected to and operative with the valve, of a casement for the valve and gas-pipe, an arm secured to and'insulated from the casement and provided with a spring-contact in the path of rotation of the burner-tube, electric conductors connected to the easement and to said insulated arm, an operating-lever geared to said valve, and a spring to automatically close the valve, substantially as described.

2'. In a device of the character described, a gas-supply pipe, a valve for the same having a depending stem, a burner-tube projecting upwardly from the valve in axial alinement with said stem and terminating in asuhstantially horizontal burner arm or tip, ametallic casement consisting of an upper port-ion orcoverin which said burner-tip is journaled, and a lower portion or box forming a journal for the depending valve-stem and provided with a slot, a spring encircling said depending valve-stem and arranged to automatically close the valve, a lever geared to the valve and projecting through said slot, an arm carried by but insulated from the casement and provided with a spring-contact in the path of the burner-tube arm or tip, an electric conductor connected to said insulated arm, and an electric conductor connected to the casement, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof l aiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES A. MILLER.

Witnesses:

H. C. RoDenRs, G. Y. THORPE. 

